Ryan Dawson is a Historian from the College of William & Mary with over 20 years of political activism in a variety of mediums: blogging, radio, books, film, and television. He contacted me and asked me to appear on his podcast. Here it is:
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Since you support the Osama Bin Laden narative, please watch this video, which YouTube deleted as “hate speech”: https://www.bitchute.com/video/0nwR88z9Etiu/
There is no way 19 men or 3 airliners crashing into them caused either of the towers to come down, certainly not building 7. The main stream videos and on the scene reports debunk this
I have to agree with you. The story has too many holes, too many anomalies and inconsistencies.
I won’t claim to know what happened on 911 but I damn sure know when I am being presented with lies.
I have studied all of this extensively, including reading the official report (something the conspiracy theorists never do). The “truther”/conspiracy theory movement twists a lot of facts, omits key facts and relies on pure fabrications and rumors. If you don’t think that jumbo jets full of jet fuel going hundreds of miles an hour at impact could destroy buildings, then I don’t know what to say to you. You’re beyond reach, hopelessly locked into a mental cage of your own creation. As for building 7 specifically, it was damaged by high velocity debris ejected from the main towers. That can clearly be seen on some photos early in the day. In fact, the first many floors facing the main tower are just a giant hole. The truthers never talk about that photographic evidence. Then there were fires that raged all day long in building 7. The building, wind and flammable debris acted, basically, like a makeshift forge, raising temperatures to the point where steel weakens (not the red herring of totally melts to liquid). If you don’t think a forge can heat metal to a weakening point, I’ll introduce you to my blacksmith, who custom shapes horse shoes all of the time.
I won’t even get into the logistics of what it would take to wire heavy traffic high profile public buildings for controlled demolition – and maintain conspiracy opsec before, during and after the event. That alone would be orders of magnitude more challenging – like impossible – than having a few motivated terrorists hijack the planes and crash them. Silliness.
Thank you for this.
The 911 truther cult is far beyond any rational argument, but sometimes, someone sensible makes the effort to present an articulate and sober rebuttal. I don’t think it will have any effect on the believers, but it’s heartening.
The conspiracy opsec argument nailed it for me since day 1. It’s simply unbelievable to think that so many people at so many level would keep quiet and never slip, never make a mistake. OFC, all your other arguments are equally valid, and even the cui bono does not find a suitable answer under the conspiracy theory.
Reading comprehension issues? Material ejected from the tower that was hit directly by a jet hit building 7. There is ample photographic evidence of that if you’d only look. That + the resulting fire.
Conspiracies happen, obviously. For example, I’ve been doing some unofficial consulting – more like acting as a sounding board – for a couple of the state level investigations into the 2020 election. They show me the analysis they’ve done and I play Devil’s advocate for them; the skeptic. At this point, I’m 90% certain that fraud occurred and it was sufficient to flip the election to Biden. In fact, I’m 90% convinced that fraud has been occurring in most all elections, local and federal, in at least some key districts in a couple of states since the late 90s. The reserved 10% uncertainty is because I haven’t heard the rebuttals to the evidence. I allow that there could be a reasonable explanation. I can’t imagine what that is, but that doesn’t mean it might not yet come out when there is an official review (probably in court).
That said, 9/11 isn’t one of those instances. With the election, there is incontrovertible unambiguous evidence (so far) that can be objectively assessed; e.g. here are thousands of names and addresses of people who registered and voted, but who do not really exist. Either the voters on that list exist or they do not. There is no room for interpretation (that is but one example). There is a clear motive for a conspiracy to commit fraud. There is opportunity. There are viable means and there is a reasonable explanation for how opsec was established and maintained. There is not, as far as I can see, a viable alternative theory that explains all of the evidence we see (you’ll have to take my word for it at this point, but hopefully soon you will have the chance to evaluate it all yourself).
9/11 is the opposite of all of that. What “truthers” call the “official narrative” covers all of the bases quite reasonably (unless you just can’t get your head around what happens in a massive high velocity impact, like a jumbo jet full of fuel, traveling at hundred of miles an hour). Are there a few gaps in evidence here and there? Sure. It was a complex event born in secrecy. There really is nothing previous to compare to. There are going to be unknows. Are those gaps sufficient to put the official findings in question? Nope. The findings and explanation align with the bulk of the evidence. There is never a perfectly airtight case in the real world; a case where no one could level a critique of some little bit of the evidence. I mean that’s what defense lawyers and courts and juries are for. Conspiracy theorists seem to think that if there are 100 pieces of critical evidence that align with the theory, but if the 101st piece of evidence is ambiguous, then they can ignore the first 100 and that ambiguous 101st is a kill shot that destroys the entire theory. That’s just not how it works in the real world – I mean, yeah, in a tight prosecution case in a court, the defense will try to distract the jury from all of the solid evidence and attack some periphery material (same approach as the conspiracy theorists), but the jury usually doesn’t fall for it. Also, the internet is not a court room. With conspiracy theorists, it’s like just the defense making its case, with no rules of evidence, no rules of procedure and no prosecution presenting counter evidence. People become convinced by that junk because they want to be convinced by it.
A lack of discernment around these conspiracy theories is damaging to the cause of maintaining our republic because it becomes too easy for those who undermine the republic to simply lump any criticism or accusations of malfeasance in with the gullible rebels who can’t accept that Islamic terrorists followed through on their stated desire to attack and kill us and that lax security and intelligence permitted it to happen. That hijacking was an easy thing to pull off back then. And that big airplanes full of fuel – which we all saw hit the buildings – really are the equivalent of military grade missiles in their destructive potential.
You are absolutely right re the time and demolition of walls, etc required to wire a building for controlled demolition. Appreciate you taking the time to write such a smart piece.
Sure. One final point. If you’re going to make the large investment in wiring buildings for demolition, then why fly airplanes into them too? Why not just say that terrorists blew up the buildings with explosives? I mean they had already tried that in 1993. Terrorists and bombs go together like peas and carrots. Adding in the airplanes represents another layer of complexity, another source of risk of failure or other unforeseen results (to our imaginary conspirators). In fact, hitting the building with airplanes could easily ruin all of the extensive work invested in wiring the buildings for demolition. The airplanes could easily sever wiring, cause explosives in impacted sections to go off prematurely or not at all, depending on material. The whole conspiracy idea is very silly.
Just like any real conspiracy , to cover up the real one there will be invented and hilarious nonsense sold up as ‘conspiracy’ , to cover up the real one. This is classic intelligence operation to divert attention to the real one.
Thank you Larry for 2 good interviews in 2 days. I don’t see how the degeneration of government into the current degree of systemic corruption, incompetence and stupidity can be turned around without a revolution, although I would love to be proven wrong.
“Ukraine needs around $5 billion every month to offset the government deficit and Kiev expect its international partners to assist in raising this money in the future, Rozhkova noted, adding that Kiev cannot plug these budget holes alone due to a drop in export revenues.
The second option, borrowing funds on the foreign market, is also practically impossible for Ukraine, as the recent downgrades of its credit ratings to pre-default levels mean that the loans will include a high risk premium.”
As much as $5 billion a month is, and this is just for government operations, and doesn’t include military replenishment. It can go up as more infrastructure is destroyed and needs to be rebuilt just to maintain a functional state. And government revenue continues to drop due to increasing war damage.
Basically Ukraine is on NATO economic and military life support living on handouts, and will essentially collapse if the financial plug is pulled.
This isn’t going to go down well with populations of the subsidizing nations as their own life support grows increasingly tenuous due to their own governments mismanagement of domestic requirements.
Excellent points about the non-existent “economy” run for the sole benefit of the thieving U.S.-installed Kiev coup authorities (the misnomer “government” hardly applies to the likes of them) who — nonetheless, and according to U.S. Senator Mitt Romney — have the desperate Vladimir Putin on the ropes and looking for a way out that may possibly include only nuclear weapons. This “information” comes to us courtesy of Professor Andrew Bacevich of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Honest Injun. I kid you, not. Check out his “introductory” paragraphs 2-6:
As the Ukraine War continues to drag on, few pundits and even fewer elected officials are eager to discuss publicly such sensitive questions. Credit Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, with having the gumption to take them on, even if his answers remind us just how terrifying such matters can be. When it comes to contemplating the possible use of nuclear weapons, strategy invariably ends up exposing the absence of strategy.
For the United States in recent decades, war has become something of a habit. The proxy war in which it is presently engaged is different from all the others: In this instance, the enemy has at hand a massive nuclear arsenal.
Launched in an act of naked aggression, the Ukraine War has not gone well for the attacker. Few will be inclined to shed tears for Vladimir Putin, who through his own folly has gotten himself into a dilly of a mess.
I make no claim to knowing how the Ukraine War will end. But if the tide of battle continues to favor Putin’s adversary and outright Russian defeat looms as a possibility, the nuclear option may eventually seem like the best card left in his hand. It is not difficult to imagine him contemplating ways of playing it to escape from a fix of his own making.
Indeed, as efforts to negotiate a ceasefire flounder, and as fighting exacts an ever heavier toll on all parties, the appeal of the nuclear option is likely to increase. Actions that just weeks ago would have been deemed beyond the pale will gradually creep into the realm of possibility.
Mr Bacevich goes on to criticize Senator Romney for a lack of common sense — as if the position of Puppet U.S. President required any such thing — but his own wildly inaccurate assessment of the current situation (on Russia’s western borders) as “context” for his criticisms of Senator Romney rather rob them of serious consideration.
Mea Culpa. I forgot to supply the link to Professor Bacevich’s article above so that others can read the entire thing and not just those paragraphs that I chose to excerpt: Man of action Mitt Romney considers obliteration.
Still and again, both Bacevich and Romney seem wildly disconnected from reality and prone to classic psychological projection: casting the shadow of their own subconscious self-assessment upon a larger world that couldn’t care less what they think.
much of the media stories about israeli military prowess are just myth , build from their early success against egypt and syrian armies. IDF tried to do the same in lebanon 1982 and got kicked out in humiliation. The whole military are rotten and as an IDF officers said (after 2006 defeat against hezbollah) decades of manning checkpoint against unarmed arabs rot the mindset of IDF.
Only the IAF seem to be operating at optimal level , then again it got mauled after syrian upgraded their A2AD with russia’s help. Makes one wonder if the whole IAF superb reputation was really another myth made up by hasbara central
There should be no place in this brilliant site for antisemites to spew their vile hatred against fantasy theories that are purely an indicator of their demented false conscioysness
Thanks Larry for your shining the light were the dirt is swept under the rug. When you say it, most of the time there is nothing left to say. Just a smile to know someone is committed to exposing their lies.
It’s good to see you on different platforms fighting the disinformation war and efforts to take the the world going down an insane path of perpetual needless war.
Good interview.
Speaking of same, I’m halfway through your interview Eva Bartlett which is also outstanding. A huge delight for me as a undergrad history who, as Gonzalo Lira explains in one of his videos, benefited from a genuine Liberal Arts education. You also need to continue to speak out against collective ignorance of history on many levels that is accompanied with intellectual laziness and “softness.” I loved to debate in college as much as I do know.
That’s also why I like your respect for Scott Ritter. no need for people to discount all of his analysis, question his motives when his “game changer” thought is not without merit from a critical thinking standpoint. I don’t think it will succeed in any short term, but I don’t think the world (meaning none of us) have any idea of the full picture and scope of mercenaries being trained all over the world and how those forces can be deployed.
No need to “REBUILD” the Uk. Army when a well-trained mercenary army of well-paid extremists can be pulled off the shelve. CIA/Media MIC will re-brand it as a revolutionary force just like they branded Al Qaeda and ISIS as moderate Arabs in Syria.
Scott’s Big and Small Arrow warfare analysis was worthy of an award, it’s alacrity was sheer genius. Thanks for your work.
Those 800-900 KNOWN military bases will be put to good use, that’s why the MiC is asking for DoD budget increases even though we’re near financial ruin. Just read David Stockman and a host of others.
How hard would it be for the US to assemble 20-30,000 White Nationalist and Muslim Extremists from around the world? They’re likely already being trained on US/NATO level standards although who knows what levels of artillery or other training they’ve undergone???
They are certainly battle hardened.
The Great Wurlitzer “FEINT” may be constant chatter of rebuilding and training Ukrainian forces when in fact they insert Muslim and White Nationalists Extremists, and mercenaries with no political particular “statehood” or political or ideological affiliation.
Ever wonder how so-called “investigative reporters” have never investigated the mercenaries that allow unchecked warfare WITHOUT A DRAFT?
We’re witnessing a warfare business model /mechanism that embodies the essence of Neo-Liberalism and techno-feudalistic authoritarianism. I, via objective analysis, blame Dems and Obama and the citizens who drank his Kook-Aid for destroying the anti-war movement. I believe that was the primary reason the Oligarchs put him in power.
On another note, our checks and balances disappeared. By-pass Congressional War Authorizations with bi-partisan Authorizations for the Use of Military Force and let Americans sink into their culture war swamps while we hire mercenaries for a fraction of the cost. Homeless US Vets? So what, give them Memorial Day media props so it cynically goes.
Talk about the Mother of All Foreign remittances back home scheme? Make stupid money fighting for the people who one day, you, the contractor, really dislikes because they forced you into this existence. The takeaway for the merc? Now I have the added advantage of knowing the real enemies soft underbelly. Let me attack during my moment of madness/insanity and project my pain when the opportunity arises.
Mental illness impacting gun violence? What happens when you pay displaced foreigners to kill and maim when most of them rather live regular lives? There’s upside for a smart terrorist to know US SOP and intelligence tidbits. Makes blow back that much easier. And thanks to ignoring Rand Paul’s sensible call for audits and accountability, the arms are floating like bubbles.
I can understand some level of anti-immigration but buried everywhere in national narratives is why people are migrating. It’s often US/EU hegemony creating unfavorable economic terms and conditions for local populations. EU citizens have supported and allowed their governments to destroy local economies in service of multi-national corporations, i.e. neo-liberalism disallows local merchants to effectively compete due to IMF/World Bank rules.
Don’t want people sleeping on your lawn then tell your governments to stop bombing and destabilizing the economies and well-being of foreign countries deemed enemies for no good reason. Bear in mind also that many of the countries facing US/NATO bombardment reject Western cultural mainstream cultures and especially those professing Orthodox Christian values (Russia and other Eurasian youth are experiencing a religious revival/renaissance) reject US/EU morals including gender confusion. Much of the world doesn’t want nor asked for all Western Values. The problem is US/NATO Military adventures that destabilize these countries resulting in immigration pressures.
For example? We won’t stop gun violence in the US anymore than we stop it in Mexico. Because unlike Canada, Mexico has a different geo-political purposes.
Since you support the Osama Bin Laden narative, please watch this video, which YouTube deleted as “hate speech”: https://www.bitchute.com/video/0nwR88z9Etiu/
There is no way 19 men or 3 airliners crashing into them caused either of the towers to come down, certainly not building 7. The main stream videos and on the scene reports debunk this
I have to agree with you. The story has too many holes, too many anomalies and inconsistencies.
I won’t claim to know what happened on 911 but I damn sure know when I am being presented with lies.
I have studied all of this extensively, including reading the official report (something the conspiracy theorists never do). The “truther”/conspiracy theory movement twists a lot of facts, omits key facts and relies on pure fabrications and rumors. If you don’t think that jumbo jets full of jet fuel going hundreds of miles an hour at impact could destroy buildings, then I don’t know what to say to you. You’re beyond reach, hopelessly locked into a mental cage of your own creation. As for building 7 specifically, it was damaged by high velocity debris ejected from the main towers. That can clearly be seen on some photos early in the day. In fact, the first many floors facing the main tower are just a giant hole. The truthers never talk about that photographic evidence. Then there were fires that raged all day long in building 7. The building, wind and flammable debris acted, basically, like a makeshift forge, raising temperatures to the point where steel weakens (not the red herring of totally melts to liquid). If you don’t think a forge can heat metal to a weakening point, I’ll introduce you to my blacksmith, who custom shapes horse shoes all of the time.
I won’t even get into the logistics of what it would take to wire heavy traffic high profile public buildings for controlled demolition – and maintain conspiracy opsec before, during and after the event. That alone would be orders of magnitude more challenging – like impossible – than having a few motivated terrorists hijack the planes and crash them. Silliness.
Thank you for this.
The 911 truther cult is far beyond any rational argument, but sometimes, someone sensible makes the effort to present an articulate and sober rebuttal. I don’t think it will have any effect on the believers, but it’s heartening.
The conspiracy opsec argument nailed it for me since day 1. It’s simply unbelievable to think that so many people at so many level would keep quiet and never slip, never make a mistake. OFC, all your other arguments are equally valid, and even the cui bono does not find a suitable answer under the conspiracy theory.
You really think that THREE buildings were taken out by TWO jets? That’s some flying!
Reading comprehension issues? Material ejected from the tower that was hit directly by a jet hit building 7. There is ample photographic evidence of that if you’d only look. That + the resulting fire.
Conspiracies happen, obviously. For example, I’ve been doing some unofficial consulting – more like acting as a sounding board – for a couple of the state level investigations into the 2020 election. They show me the analysis they’ve done and I play Devil’s advocate for them; the skeptic. At this point, I’m 90% certain that fraud occurred and it was sufficient to flip the election to Biden. In fact, I’m 90% convinced that fraud has been occurring in most all elections, local and federal, in at least some key districts in a couple of states since the late 90s. The reserved 10% uncertainty is because I haven’t heard the rebuttals to the evidence. I allow that there could be a reasonable explanation. I can’t imagine what that is, but that doesn’t mean it might not yet come out when there is an official review (probably in court).
That said, 9/11 isn’t one of those instances. With the election, there is incontrovertible unambiguous evidence (so far) that can be objectively assessed; e.g. here are thousands of names and addresses of people who registered and voted, but who do not really exist. Either the voters on that list exist or they do not. There is no room for interpretation (that is but one example). There is a clear motive for a conspiracy to commit fraud. There is opportunity. There are viable means and there is a reasonable explanation for how opsec was established and maintained. There is not, as far as I can see, a viable alternative theory that explains all of the evidence we see (you’ll have to take my word for it at this point, but hopefully soon you will have the chance to evaluate it all yourself).
9/11 is the opposite of all of that. What “truthers” call the “official narrative” covers all of the bases quite reasonably (unless you just can’t get your head around what happens in a massive high velocity impact, like a jumbo jet full of fuel, traveling at hundred of miles an hour). Are there a few gaps in evidence here and there? Sure. It was a complex event born in secrecy. There really is nothing previous to compare to. There are going to be unknows. Are those gaps sufficient to put the official findings in question? Nope. The findings and explanation align with the bulk of the evidence. There is never a perfectly airtight case in the real world; a case where no one could level a critique of some little bit of the evidence. I mean that’s what defense lawyers and courts and juries are for. Conspiracy theorists seem to think that if there are 100 pieces of critical evidence that align with the theory, but if the 101st piece of evidence is ambiguous, then they can ignore the first 100 and that ambiguous 101st is a kill shot that destroys the entire theory. That’s just not how it works in the real world – I mean, yeah, in a tight prosecution case in a court, the defense will try to distract the jury from all of the solid evidence and attack some periphery material (same approach as the conspiracy theorists), but the jury usually doesn’t fall for it. Also, the internet is not a court room. With conspiracy theorists, it’s like just the defense making its case, with no rules of evidence, no rules of procedure and no prosecution presenting counter evidence. People become convinced by that junk because they want to be convinced by it.
A lack of discernment around these conspiracy theories is damaging to the cause of maintaining our republic because it becomes too easy for those who undermine the republic to simply lump any criticism or accusations of malfeasance in with the gullible rebels who can’t accept that Islamic terrorists followed through on their stated desire to attack and kill us and that lax security and intelligence permitted it to happen. That hijacking was an easy thing to pull off back then. And that big airplanes full of fuel – which we all saw hit the buildings – really are the equivalent of military grade missiles in their destructive potential.
Run and tell them… “American Society of Civil Engineers”
You are absolutely right re the time and demolition of walls, etc required to wire a building for controlled demolition. Appreciate you taking the time to write such a smart piece.
Sure. One final point. If you’re going to make the large investment in wiring buildings for demolition, then why fly airplanes into them too? Why not just say that terrorists blew up the buildings with explosives? I mean they had already tried that in 1993. Terrorists and bombs go together like peas and carrots. Adding in the airplanes represents another layer of complexity, another source of risk of failure or other unforeseen results (to our imaginary conspirators). In fact, hitting the building with airplanes could easily ruin all of the extensive work invested in wiring the buildings for demolition. The airplanes could easily sever wiring, cause explosives in impacted sections to go off prematurely or not at all, depending on material. The whole conspiracy idea is very silly.
Just like any real conspiracy , to cover up the real one there will be invented and hilarious nonsense sold up as ‘conspiracy’ , to cover up the real one. This is classic intelligence operation to divert attention to the real one.
Thank you Larry for 2 good interviews in 2 days. I don’t see how the degeneration of government into the current degree of systemic corruption, incompetence and stupidity can be turned around without a revolution, although I would love to be proven wrong.
Excellent talk. Its a pleasure to hear someone speak clearly without all the “umms,” and “ahhhs”. You lay out the case in a clear concise manner.
Architects of America did a great documentary investigation on this.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?320748-5/washington-journal-architects-engineers-911-truth
And there was an even better job debunking Gage and his truthers – https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA280092448&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=10639330&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7Eb4350a84
From Sputnik:
“Ukraine needs around $5 billion every month to offset the government deficit and Kiev expect its international partners to assist in raising this money in the future, Rozhkova noted, adding that Kiev cannot plug these budget holes alone due to a drop in export revenues.
The second option, borrowing funds on the foreign market, is also practically impossible for Ukraine, as the recent downgrades of its credit ratings to pre-default levels mean that the loans will include a high risk premium.”
As much as $5 billion a month is, and this is just for government operations, and doesn’t include military replenishment. It can go up as more infrastructure is destroyed and needs to be rebuilt just to maintain a functional state. And government revenue continues to drop due to increasing war damage.
Basically Ukraine is on NATO economic and military life support living on handouts, and will essentially collapse if the financial plug is pulled.
This isn’t going to go down well with populations of the subsidizing nations as their own life support grows increasingly tenuous due to their own governments mismanagement of domestic requirements.
Excellent points about the non-existent “economy” run for the sole benefit of the thieving U.S.-installed Kiev coup authorities (the misnomer “government” hardly applies to the likes of them) who — nonetheless, and according to U.S. Senator Mitt Romney — have the desperate Vladimir Putin on the ropes and looking for a way out that may possibly include only nuclear weapons. This “information” comes to us courtesy of Professor Andrew Bacevich of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Honest Injun. I kid you, not. Check out his “introductory” paragraphs 2-6:
Mr Bacevich goes on to criticize Senator Romney for a lack of common sense — as if the position of Puppet U.S. President required any such thing — but his own wildly inaccurate assessment of the current situation (on Russia’s western borders) as “context” for his criticisms of Senator Romney rather rob them of serious consideration.
Mea Culpa. I forgot to supply the link to Professor Bacevich’s article above so that others can read the entire thing and not just those paragraphs that I chose to excerpt: Man of action Mitt Romney considers obliteration.
Still and again, both Bacevich and Romney seem wildly disconnected from reality and prone to classic psychological projection: casting the shadow of their own subconscious self-assessment upon a larger world that couldn’t care less what they think.
much of the media stories about israeli military prowess are just myth , build from their early success against egypt and syrian armies. IDF tried to do the same in lebanon 1982 and got kicked out in humiliation. The whole military are rotten and as an IDF officers said (after 2006 defeat against hezbollah) decades of manning checkpoint against unarmed arabs rot the mindset of IDF.
Only the IAF seem to be operating at optimal level , then again it got mauled after syrian upgraded their A2AD with russia’s help. Makes one wonder if the whole IAF superb reputation was really another myth made up by hasbara central
There should be no place in this brilliant site for antisemites to spew their vile hatred against fantasy theories that are purely an indicator of their demented false conscioysness
Thanks Larry for your shining the light were the dirt is swept under the rug. When you say it, most of the time there is nothing left to say. Just a smile to know someone is committed to exposing their lies.
Buena entrevista. 👏
Gracias.
It’s good to see you on different platforms fighting the disinformation war and efforts to take the the world going down an insane path of perpetual needless war.
Good interview.
Speaking of same, I’m halfway through your interview Eva Bartlett which is also outstanding. A huge delight for me as a undergrad history who, as Gonzalo Lira explains in one of his videos, benefited from a genuine Liberal Arts education. You also need to continue to speak out against collective ignorance of history on many levels that is accompanied with intellectual laziness and “softness.” I loved to debate in college as much as I do know.
That’s also why I like your respect for Scott Ritter. no need for people to discount all of his analysis, question his motives when his “game changer” thought is not without merit from a critical thinking standpoint. I don’t think it will succeed in any short term, but I don’t think the world (meaning none of us) have any idea of the full picture and scope of mercenaries being trained all over the world and how those forces can be deployed.
No need to “REBUILD” the Uk. Army when a well-trained mercenary army of well-paid extremists can be pulled off the shelve. CIA/Media MIC will re-brand it as a revolutionary force just like they branded Al Qaeda and ISIS as moderate Arabs in Syria.
Scott’s Big and Small Arrow warfare analysis was worthy of an award, it’s alacrity was sheer genius. Thanks for your work.
Those 800-900 KNOWN military bases will be put to good use, that’s why the MiC is asking for DoD budget increases even though we’re near financial ruin. Just read David Stockman and a host of others.
How hard would it be for the US to assemble 20-30,000 White Nationalist and Muslim Extremists from around the world? They’re likely already being trained on US/NATO level standards although who knows what levels of artillery or other training they’ve undergone???
They are certainly battle hardened.
The Great Wurlitzer “FEINT” may be constant chatter of rebuilding and training Ukrainian forces when in fact they insert Muslim and White Nationalists Extremists, and mercenaries with no political particular “statehood” or political or ideological affiliation.
Ever wonder how so-called “investigative reporters” have never investigated the mercenaries that allow unchecked warfare WITHOUT A DRAFT?
We’re witnessing a warfare business model /mechanism that embodies the essence of Neo-Liberalism and techno-feudalistic authoritarianism. I, via objective analysis, blame Dems and Obama and the citizens who drank his Kook-Aid for destroying the anti-war movement. I believe that was the primary reason the Oligarchs put him in power.
On another note, our checks and balances disappeared. By-pass Congressional War Authorizations with bi-partisan Authorizations for the Use of Military Force and let Americans sink into their culture war swamps while we hire mercenaries for a fraction of the cost. Homeless US Vets? So what, give them Memorial Day media props so it cynically goes.
Talk about the Mother of All Foreign remittances back home scheme? Make stupid money fighting for the people who one day, you, the contractor, really dislikes because they forced you into this existence. The takeaway for the merc? Now I have the added advantage of knowing the real enemies soft underbelly. Let me attack during my moment of madness/insanity and project my pain when the opportunity arises.
Mental illness impacting gun violence? What happens when you pay displaced foreigners to kill and maim when most of them rather live regular lives? There’s upside for a smart terrorist to know US SOP and intelligence tidbits. Makes blow back that much easier. And thanks to ignoring Rand Paul’s sensible call for audits and accountability, the arms are floating like bubbles.
I can understand some level of anti-immigration but buried everywhere in national narratives is why people are migrating. It’s often US/EU hegemony creating unfavorable economic terms and conditions for local populations. EU citizens have supported and allowed their governments to destroy local economies in service of multi-national corporations, i.e. neo-liberalism disallows local merchants to effectively compete due to IMF/World Bank rules.
Don’t want people sleeping on your lawn then tell your governments to stop bombing and destabilizing the economies and well-being of foreign countries deemed enemies for no good reason. Bear in mind also that many of the countries facing US/NATO bombardment reject Western cultural mainstream cultures and especially those professing Orthodox Christian values (Russia and other Eurasian youth are experiencing a religious revival/renaissance) reject US/EU morals including gender confusion. Much of the world doesn’t want nor asked for all Western Values. The problem is US/NATO Military adventures that destabilize these countries resulting in immigration pressures.
For example? We won’t stop gun violence in the US anymore than we stop it in Mexico. Because unlike Canada, Mexico has a different geo-political purposes.
Larry,
Ryan Dawson is a graduate of the College of William and Mary but he’s not affiliated with them in any way.
Be careful who you associate your good name with.
Stay safe.
There should be no place on this superb site for Ike antisemitic slurs based on the deranged false consciousness of the beholder.
Agree. I’ve deleted RichardD.